Today I studied “Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Dynamic Development.”
It is a six hour, self-paced video training course that covers how to make use of Dreamweaver in a dynamic website.
Coupled with watching the videos and working through the exercises it took me a little over 11 hours of studying and programming split over two days.
Topics I Studied
Setting up a dynamic website project in Dreamweaver CS4 using ASP and ASP.NET
Differences between static and dynamic web pages
Selecting an application server and a database server to meet my project’s needs
A brief introduction to the WAMP stack
An overview of PHP, server-side includes and connecting to databases.
Building a website with ColdFusion and MySQL
Working with PHP and ColdFusion and server bindings
How to build validated data entry forms
Authenticating users and protecting pages from unauthorised access
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate how to build a dynamic website on a Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Windows, Apache, MySQL, ASP/ASP.NET stack
Create secure websites requiring users to authenticate before the web pages can be accessed
Create forms that automatically validate on both client-side and server-side
Demonstrate an understanding of the SPRY XML framework
Creating dynamic user interfaces with the Spry framework